• bassomitron@lemmy.world
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      3 hours ago

      People had literally burned down police stations and mass looting was occurring. Their police force was completely overrun. Don’t act like it was remotely the same thing.

      I have several friends in Minneapolis that are very progressive. There were tons of people who were legit scared during periods of that for numerous reasons. It wasn’t “acceptable,” but what the fuck else do you do when law and order begins to completely breakdown?

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        3 hours ago

        Maybe reform the law and order that regularly lets Police murder citizens because they feel like it?

        You know, how the protestors demanded before their peaceful protest got beaten up in order to escalate violence to deligitimize the demands and present the violent police as necessary.

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          33 minutes ago

          I don’t disagree. I was simply providing context, which the other comment I responded to wasn’t addressing.